Two self-styled “Crypto Bros” are facing shocking criminal charges after allegedly kidnapping and torturing a European crypto millionaire. They’re now also suspected of holding another tourist hostage during a drug-fueled weekend in rural Kentucky.
Crypto Party Turns Dark
Under the guise of a cryptocurrency investment opportunity, William Duplessie, 33, and John Woeltz, 37, flew a group of people on a private jet.
The pair allegedly lured wealthy European investors, models, hangers-on, and socialites to a lavish black-marble-floored mansion in Smithland, Kentucky — 135 miles southwest of Louisville — under the guise of a cryptocurrency investment opportunity.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the gathering quickly spiraled into a paranoid and drug-fueled frenzy.
High on cocaine and heavily armed, the duo reportedly boasted to guests that they were former intelligence agents who had kidnapped a German man, stolen his crypto, and killed him.
Was there a Prior Hostage?
Records show that days before the high-profile SoHo kidnapping case, another disturbing incident was unfolding.
